New Labour 1997 – 2010

New Labour spoke of welfare rights and responsibilities

Such a term was a movement back towards a more social democratic approach to welfare by emphasising the reasons why people were forced into the margins of society (relative poverty) – low-pay, poorly educated, old-age, infirm, unemployed

BUT retaining some elements of New Right principles (responsibilities = self-help)

Thus welfare still retained the New Right principle of a ‘hand-up not a hand-out’ by: